Dreams are crazy!

C50

C50

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I've always enjoyed how your brain can take different events, jumble them together and create dreams. I love to analyze dreams and see if I can piece things together.

Last night I had a dream about two kids I knew back in middle school. We were in a mall and Vicky was chasing Eddy around because she loved him. I have not thought of these kids in 45 years, we never hung out together, certainly never went to a mall together.

How in the world did my brain dig them up? Their names and faces? And then create a scenario that never happened? It's crazy for sure.
 

I know! It is beyond us understanding how "random" our minds put stuff together when it so relaxed. Maybe that's the game. When we are awake we are willfully putting our thoughts in some kind of order ( we hope ). When we sleep all that order disappears and what seems like chaos is just the mind running around without having a director. ( self/me/I/ ) egoless freedom so to speak.

The same kind of weird and unpredictable thoughts and images happen when someone takes a potent psychedelic. Have you seen the before and after video's of people taking LSD and how they change when the drug takes affect? They are in a dream like state.
 

C50, don't be surprised if you suddenly hear from those old friends. Our subconscious minds seem to be able to either anticipate something or have access to information our conscious minds don't have.
Also, things in dreams are sometimes representations of people....so the dream might mean something more subtle than at first appears.
 
Paco Dennis said:
I know! It is beyond us understanding how "random" our minds put stuff together when it so relaxed. Maybe that's the game. When we are awake we are willfully putting our thoughts in some kind of order ( we hope ). When we sleep all that order disappears and what seems like chaos is just the mind running around without having a director. ( self/me/I/ ) egoless freedom so to speak. The same kind of weird and unpredictable thoughts and images happen when someone takes a potent psychedelic. Have you seen the before and after video's of people taking LSD and how they change when the drug takes affect? They are in a dream like state.
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You are absolutly correct. Without the constraints of context our minds can freely run haphazardly, and the results can be a lot of fun.
 
Lavinia said:
C50, don't be surprised if you suddenly hear from those old friends. Our subconscious minds seem to be able to either anticipate something or have access to information our conscious minds don't have.
Also, things in dreams are sometimes representations of people....so the dream might mean something more subtle than at first appears.
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If I hear from them I would probably faint. lol
 

Dreams are crazy!​


Some of my dreams have been so good that I wanted to stay asleep.

In one dream I shared a pint of Guinness with Yuri Gagarin as we sped around the Earth in his Vostok capsule, he was a nice chap, but he spoke in a strange language, and his feet stunk worse than mine.

Now my best dream, well I'm not going to tell you what Sophia Loren and I got up to, except to say,"Cor", I'll definitely have that dream again."

Then in another dream, I won all the events at the Isle of Man TT races, and I loved drowning everyone with those big bottles of Champaine.

The strangest dream I've had was where I was teaching that fella Van Gogh how to paint, he didn't like the excellent advice I was giving him, so he trounced of in a tantrum and cut one of his ear-holes off, I knew he would never amount to much. 😊
 
I usually can't remember my dreams. I don't know if it's the meds or what. But what I remember, my dreams are rather good. They tell a good story, with lots of characters. And I have to say the sexual ones are damn good. My dream sex life is way better than my waking sex life. But I don't have many of those dreams. I think we all have the capacity to form good dream stories, etc. Think of all the books, plays, tales, movies we create when we're awake, why not when we're asleep.

Hey, why is "S E X U AL" replaced by stars? Who in the hell gets all worked up by that word that you have to ******* it. For God's sake, talk about childish moralistic nonsense!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
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fuzzybuddy said:
I usually can't remember my dreams. I don't know if the meds or what. But what I remember, my dreams are rather good. They tell a good story, with lots of characters. And I have to say the ****** ones are damn good. My dream sex life is way better than my waking sex life. But I don't have many of those dreams. I think we all have the capacity to form good dream stories, etc. Think of all the books, plays, tales, movies we create when we're awake, why not when we're asleep.

Hey, why is "S E X U AL" replaced by stars? Who in the hell gets all worked up by that word that you have to ******* it. For God's sake, talk about childish moralistic nonsense!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Man I wish I had more sex dreams! Even when I was young I never had many sex dreams, which is strange because for a good part of my life that's about all I thought about.
 
It could be a kind of nostalgia. Not an obsessive type -- just your mind being triggered to dredge up memories, perhaps by the couple of threads about memories posted recently, or even by songs from your high school days turning up on music threads here. Music a powerful memory cue. But if you have similar dreams--set in past and involving pursuit i'd consider if your subconscious is trying to have you deal with a regret you feel sometimes (not obsessively just in passing) about someone or action you were intrigued by but never really pursued.

By action i mean a vocation or avocation. i prefer the word avocation to hobby because i feel 'hobby' trivializes something just because it is not income generating. It might be practical and useful to the community like my Dad's years as a HAM operator or an artistic endeavor. Or even an educational one, wanting formal training in some field or activity that 'calls' to you. And it is important to compare/contrast how you felt while ln the dream and after awake, they are not always the same, and that can be a clue to both meaning and relevance

The more jumbled an incoherent a dream is, tho it may include people, images and dialogue from both long past places, incidents and/or conversations with no apparent connection to each other the more likely it is what neuro scientists studying sleep & dreams now call 'non-REM' dreams. Most people rarely remember them, and the current theory is they are basically 'sorting' data for conscious processing or for continued subconscious storage.

We all have our own dream languages & symbols, it is helpful to figure our's out.
 
feywon said:
It could be a kind of nostalgia. Not an obsessive type -- just your mind being triggered to dredge up memories, perhaps by the couple of threads about memories posted recently, or even by songs from your high school days turning up on music threads here. Music a powerful memory cue. But if you have similar dreams--set in past and involving pursuit i'd consider if your subconscious is trying to have you deal with a regret you feel sometimes (not obsessively just in passing) about someone or action you were intrigued by but never really pursued.

By action i mean a vocation or avocation. i prefer the word avocation to hobby because i feel 'hobby' trivializes something just because it is not income generating. It might be practical and useful to the community like my Dad's years as a HAM operator or an artistic endeavor. Or even an educational one, wanting formal training in some field or activity that 'calls' to you. And it is important to compare/contrast how you felt while ln the dream and after awake, they are not always the same, and that can be a clue to both meaning and relevance

The more jumbled an incoherent a dream is, tho it may include people, images and dialogue from both long past places, incidents and/or conversations with no apparent connection to each other the more likely it is what neuro scientists studying sleep & dreams now call 'non-REM' dreams. Most people rarely remember them, and the current theory is they are basically 'sorting' data for conscious processing or for continued subconscious storage.

We all have our own dream languages & symbols, it is helpful to figure our's out.
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I heard a saying once "Everything/Anything can be a window to the infinite." Dreams are definitely one. What Jung called the collective unconscious. The exploration can take many forms/techniques. I think we are attracted to certain means to look beyond our ego. They vary from person to person and from time to time. Nothing in this realm is going to be 100% reliable...well science isn't either.
 
I read something about dreams that was a pretty good analogy:
Think of it as your brain’s version of throwing spaghetti against the wall and seeing what sticks.

If the brain is going through old memories and creating a dream scenario, why did a ghost appear and throw me against a wall? Talk about weird!
 
So far, the only explanation of dreams that makes sense to me is that it's a sort of housecleaning that your brain does to itself. It puts together random thoughts, which can be about anything - recent events, very old memories, poetic representations of things and feelings - and knits them into a narrative for you to enjoy (or not). The brain has a logic all its own, and fits "stuff" together for its own health.
 
C50 said:
If I hear from them I would probably faint. lol
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Not as unlikely as you think. We don't always know how people feel about us. A few times, long after the fact i've found out that people i thought either disliked me or were oblivious to my existence had more positive thoughts about me than i ever imagined. Especially from middle and high school years.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
Hey, why is "S E X U AL" replaced by stars? Who in the hell gets all worked up by that word that you have to ******* it. For God's sake, talk about childish moralistic nonsense!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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It's just normal 'potty mouth' blocker feature that online forums use to keep PG-13 rated, so they don't loose Goggle revenue.
 
I keep the tv on all night, playing repeats, because of PTSD (when I awaken, it keeps my brain from kicking in to past events), but sometimes my dreams involve family members that my subconscious brain writes into the televised script. These are very real, but not of the anxiety-producing nature of PTSD nightmares. I often regret waking from them and try to get back into the scenes. (Maybe I secretly want to be a tv star!)
 
I recently read some blurb on Facebook, (you know, the stories that string you along to keep you scrolling through, increasing the chances of you accidentally touching one of the many advertising trip lines). Anyway, the blurb was about sleep and mentioned a couple interesting things: 1. that the faces you see in dreams belong to real people that you've met in your life., that your mind is unable to manufacture a face image . 2. I forgot the second interesting thing, but when I remember it I'll edit this post. 🤔
 
Nathan said:
I recently read some blurb on Facebook, (you know, the stories that string you along to keep you scrolling through, increasing the chances of you accidentally touching one of the many advertising trip lines). Anyway, the blurb was about sleep and mentioned a couple interesting things: 1. that the faces you see in dreams belong to real people that you've met in your life., that your mind is unable to manufacture a face image . 2. I forgot the second interesting thing, but when I remember it I'll edit this post. 🤔
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I've read also, that when you're seeing someone in a dream, you know who it is, but you can't actually see a face.

Also, you can't see your own face in a mirror when you're dreaming.

Lucid dreaming is very interesting, too. Basically it's like you're awake while you're dreaming...you are aware that you're dreaming.
 
In dreams I have a town that keeps recurring. I'm usually driving and it's near sunrise or sunset (you know how the sky looks at that time) and I'm going up and down streets, but don't see anyone despite it's being what I perceive at a moderate-sized place. It's like I'm looking for some address and can't find it. I wake up feeling peaceful, though.
 
timoc said:

Dreams are crazy!​


Some of my dreams have been so good that I wanted to stay asleep.

In one dream I shared a pint of Guinness with Yuri Gagarin as we sped around the Earth in his Vostok capsule, he was a nice chap, but he spoke in a strange language, and his feet stunk worse than mine.

Now my best dream, well I'm not going to tell you what Sophia Loren and I got up to, except to say,"Cor", I'll definitely have that dream again."

Then in another dream, I won all the events at the Isle of Man TT races, and I loved drowning everyone with those big bottles of Champaine.

The strangest dream I've had was where I was teaching that fella Van Gogh how to paint, he didn't like the excellent advice I was giving him, so he trounced of in a tantrum and cut one of his ear-holes off, I knew he would never amount to much. 😊
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you are the funniest man, thanks for the laugh. And when was the last time I heard "cor"? many years
 
I have repeat dreams of going somewhere and not being able to find my way back, even though everything I see, and everywhere I walk, is familiar. Most often the people are strangers, however.
 

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